Three men who tried to promote their bar on Facebook by uploading a fun picture of a Buddha wearing headphones get to spend the next two-and-a-half years locked in a Burmese prison, all thanks to their marketing plan.
A Mother Jones story on the Winn Parish Correctional Center blew up this weekend when a senior producer was arrested for trespass, apparently prompting a second reporter who had been working undercover as a guard to abandon the investigation.
The image of Michael Phelps as a fish in the streets and a real kinky guy in the sheets just got a big boost from Kim Petro, a plus-size dominatrix who apparently passed a lie detector test before selling her story to the National Enquirer.
Even more sad news out of Two and a Half Men, a halfway house for the criminally insane: Jon Cryer—arguably the most well-adjusted of the group, whatever that means—once turned to Charlie Sheen for help hiring prostitutes because he was "an emotional basket case" over his divorce.
A special thing happened last weekend at the South Carolina National Security Action Summit: Rick "We Will Never Have the Smart People on Our Side" Santorum met an American citizen who makes him look like a champion of reason.
Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we melt our brains down to a thick, soupy liquid, load it into squirt guns, and chase our crush around the park until we pass out.
Today the New York Times announced its selection of 20 new op-ed writers who will contribute to the paper on a monthly basis. Editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal told Capital New York that his staff selected contributors with “a broad range of viewpoints and subjects and backgrounds and geographical locations and…
Not only does Kristin Cavallari balance on heels, she also designs a mid-priced line of them for Chinese Laundry, which is available online and in "select Nordstrom stores." According to Kristin, these shoes are "staples."
Everyone's favorite alleged murderer Robert Durst was reportedly in possession of a latex mask designed to conceal his identity when he was arrested last weekend. TMZ reports that police found the mask in the real estate heir's hotel room along with $42,000 in cash, a loaded handgun, and a small amount of marijuana.
San Francisco's St. Mary's Cathedral is trying to baptize the city's homeless away: the Archdiocese of San Francisco has installed a watering system that floods the steps of the church, KCBS reports.
There are multiple reports that third-year University of Virginia student Martese Johnson was brutally beaten by local law enforcement after trying to use a fake ID to enter Trinity Irish Pub Tuesday night, a local bar in Charlottesville.
A man who was minding his own business, just drinking in a tree like we all do sometimes, met his fate in a horrible freak accident when he fell from said tree and was impaled on a fence. Good reason not to climb trees.
It was downright gorgeous across the United States and Canada earlier this week. Dozens of towns from Texas to Saskatchewan set record highs during the brief warm-up. Unfortunately, March's gotta act like March, and we've slumped back into that weird winter pattern of a warm west and cool east.
I never took an AP course in high school. I'm pretty sure it was because I never qualified for it (I went straight B-minuses throughout my high school career), but it was also because I went to school back when taking AP courses wasn't the dire necessity that it is for today's students. According to this article,…
In July 2007, the artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan ended their own lives. Both had grown erratic and paranoid in the preceding months, and on the 10th, Blake found his longtime romantic partner dead in their East Village apartment, overdosed on a lethal cocktail of whiskey and Tylenol PM. One week later, he…
Thanks to tax breaks like the mortgage interest deduction that overwhelmingly benefit the affluent, the top 1% of earners received more in government tax breaks than the bottom 80% of earners combined in 2013. The solution, as always, is to tax the rich.
In Wednesday's New York Times, Nick Bilton, a Styles columnist who writes about technology as you might expect a Styles columnist to, makes a foray into science journalism, questioning if "wearable tech" could be harmful to our bodies—could wearable computers, like the AppleWatch (onsaleApril24atyournearestAppleStore)…
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A passel of racist, homophobic text messages sent between at least five San Francisco police officers were released last Friday as part of a motion by the U.S. Attorney's office to deny bail to Ian Furminger, a former SFPD sergeant recently convicted on federal corruption charges and a primary actor in the series of…
